14-letter words containing a, f, e, c, t, i
- nondiffractive — Not diffractive.
- of a certainty — without a doubt; certainly
- pacific oyster — Japanese oyster.
- packet sniffer — (networking, tool) A network monitoring tool that captures data packets and decodes them using built-in knowledge of common protocols. Sniffers are used to debug and monitor networking problems.
- parturifacient — inducing or accelerating labor, or childbirth; oxytocic.
- petty official — a minor official in government, etc
- picture-framer — a person or company whose job is to frame photographs, paintings etc
- prefabrication — to fabricate or construct beforehand.
- prettification — to make pretty, especially in a small, petty way: to prettify a natural beauty.
- preunification — of the period before unification
- primacy effect — the process whereby the first few items on a list are learnt more rapidly than the middle items
- recodification — the act, process, or result of arranging in a systematic form or code.
- reconfirmation — the act of confirming.
- rectifiability — the quality or state of being rectifiable
- reefing jacket — a man's short double-breasted jacket of sturdy wool
- refractoriness — hard or impossible to manage; stubbornly disobedient: a refractory child.
- regasification — Regasification is the process of returning LNG to its gaseous state.
- relexification — to replace the vocabulary of (a language, especially a pidgin) with words drawn from another language, without changing the grammatical structure.
- resinification — to convert into a resin.
- reverification — the act of verifying.
- revivification — to restore to life; give new life to; revive; reanimate.
- sacrifice bunt — a bunt made by the batter so that a base runner is advanced while the batter is put out
- safety circuit — a type of electronic circuit that prevents malfunction by stopping the flow of current or sounding an alert.
- safety curtain — a sheet of asbestos or other fireproof material that can be lowered just inside the proscenium arch in case of fire, sealing off the backstage area from the auditorium.
- safety officer — The safety officer in a company or an organization is the person who is responsible for the safety of the people who work or visit there.
- saint boniface — Saint, pope a.d. 608–615.
- schiff reagent — a solution of rosaniline and sulfurous acid in water, used to test for the presence of aldehydes.
- scientifically — of or relating to science or the sciences: scientific studies.
- scsi interface — SCSI adaptor
- self-actualize — to undergo self-actualization.
- self-actuating — to incite or move to action; impel; motivate: actuated by selfish motives.
- self-contained — containing in oneself or itself all that is necessary; independent.
- self-dedicated — wholly committed to something, as to an ideal, political cause, or personal goal: a dedicated artist.
- self-replicate — (of a computer virus, etc) to reproduce itself
- semantic field — an area of human experience or perception, as color, that is delimited and subcategorized by a set of interrelated vocabulary items in a language.
- sickle feather — one of the paired, elongated, sickle-shaped, middle feathers of the tail of the rooster.
- slit fricative — a fricative, as (f) or (th), in which the tongue is relatively flat, with air channeled over it through a shallow slit.
- soft ice-cream — a softer and lighter-textured ice cream that contains more air than standard ice-cream. It was developed in Britain in the 20th century.
- special effect — Usually, special effects. a video or audio illusion in film or other media, created with computer-generated images, prosthetic makeup, pyrotechnics, etc.
- state function — a thermodynamic quantity that has definite values for given states of a system, such as entropy, enthalpy, free energy, etc
- stocking frame — a type of knitting machine
- straight-faced — a serious or impassive facial expression that conceals one's true feelings about something, especially a desire to laugh.
- superficiality — being at, on, or near the surface: a superficial wound.
- surface-active — (of a substance, esp a detergent) capable of lowering the surface tension of a liquid, usually water
- surface-to-air — (of a missile, message, etc.) capable of traveling from the surface of the earth to a target in the atmosphere.
- synaptic cleft — the small gap, measured in nanometers, between an axon terminal and any of the cell membranes in the immediate vicinity.
- teaching staff — those members of staff in a school, college, or university who teach
- technical foul — a foul committed by a player or coach, usually not involving physical contact with an opponent, called often for unsportsmanlike conduct, as holding on to the basket or using profanity, that gives the opposing team one or two free throws and sometimes, if the foul was flagrant, requires the ejection of the offending player or coach from the game.
- tractive force — the force measured in the drawbar of a locomotive or tractor
- traffic circle — a circular arrangement constructed at the intersection of two or more roads in order to facilitate the passage of vehicles from one road to another.